Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the great Yokohama earthquake of 1923. Cardinal requisite of any foreign service diplomat is that he shall be able to write clearly, vividly, movingly. Of the earthquake Nelson Johnson reported: "I found Yokohama in ruins. I left it busy removing the last vestiges of the confused masses of brick, a city of small galvanized iron shops and houses looking for all the world like a crude mining town in Alaska or a boom town of the prairies, and no longer the oriental city of Kipling and the whaler...
...Cook's claim reached civilization. Five days later Peary cabled his own claim from Labrador, followed it shortly by a bitter denunciation of Cook: "Do not trouble about Cook's story. . . . He has not been to the Pole. . . . He has simply handed the public a gold brick...
Stretching for six blocks along Chicago's West Side are the seven dirty red brick buildings and the one clean yellow brick building of "Misery Harbor" (Cook County Hospital)-largest general hospital in the world. Through the gates of the hospital pour 135,000 charity patients every year, for everything from athlete's foot treatment to blood transfusions.* During the last four years Cook County Hospital has been a battleground for two warring medical factions. Last week a compromise ended the fight...
...manage its team, Philadelphia dug up Harry Davis, onetime captain of the Philadelphia Athletics. Cincinnati got Bubbles Hargrave, National League batting champion in 1926. New York has Moose McCormick, old Giant pinch hitter, and Chicago has Brick Owens, longtime American League umpire. Most famed of the circuit's managers is St. Louis' peppery Gabby Street, the Old Sarge who won two pennants and a World Series for the St. Louis Cardinals...
...direct answer to Nazi hopes that the narrow escape would make Adolf Hitler better loved, some Berlin hater winged a brick through the plate-glass window of Hitler's favorite, official photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Herr Hitler was all dressed up in luck last week. The brick did not touch the big portrait of the Führer in the window...